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Rescuing God from Religion is an exploration of God and encourages people to construct their own ideas of God free of religious doctrine. Whether or not 'God'.
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- The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong: | leondumoulin.nl: Books
Where does Christianity, the religion that gave us BC and AD for nearly two millennia, come into all this? And of course Paul only wrote seven of the letters attributed to him in the New Testament, not including the Epistles to the Colossians or the Ephesians.
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- Does Holy Scripture really need ‘rescuing’?.
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- Refusing reductionism;
By clicking 'Accept' you agree to this use of data. We encounter the transcendent, she says, in music, poetry, sex, love, nature — and religion. In effect, Armstrong has written a highly rational tribute to the murky wingman of our lives that exists beyond what is material and rational. A common feature of Scripture, as she sees it, is helping people connect to a deeper truth to enhance their humanity.
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The Hebrew Bible repeatedly has God ordering genocides, as of the Amalekites; and the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, contains contradictions with no neat unifying message. Life is complicated, humans are alternately kind and cruel, and Scriptures incorporated without embarrassment internal conflicts — such as those multiple versions of the Ten Commandments, or the varying accounts of the life of Jesus from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
To paraphrase Walt Whitman: If Scripture contradicts itself, so be it.
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Scripture is large; it contains multitudes. In juggling texts in Hebrew, ancient Greek, Chinese, Sanskrit and other languages, Armstrong covers a vast range and inevitably wades into areas in which she is not expert.
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And while I found the broad arguments at the beginning and end of this book to be fascinating and persuasive, I yawned periodically over details of the Rig Veda, neo-Confucians or Sikh ideology. Yet this is a dazzling accomplishment, a reflection of an encyclopedic knowledge of comparative religion and of a wisdom about spirituality in the human species.
What shines through is the way Scriptures in so many traditions were an art form, like an opera or poetry reading, meant to elevate us, not simply to give us ammunition to support preconceived views. There is relationship with God and life in his Kingdom, and then there is religion. They are not the same.
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong: | leondumoulin.nl: Books
I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man. Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it…Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God's grace.
If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. Galatians , The Message. If you want to know Jesus as he really is, to experience him just as intimately as the disciples did, you are going to have to clear away the religious fog.